Well, we made it through our first full day of touring. I thought I would share a few non-tourist-destination type things. For example, the food. I’ve eaten more than a few things I don’t recognize, and a few things I do. Last night’s buffet at the hotel was amazing. We had kebab meat, no skewer, we had the best hummus I’ve ever had with fresh bread…name your type, they had tons of varieties of bread. Awesome guacamole, which we ate on bread also. Fresh native fruits: pears, apples, oranges, dates, etc. Olives have been on every buffet too. Some fish dishes, beef tongue (nope for this girl), and lots of salads and desserts. This morning for breakfast I had a cheese soufflé that was yummy, more bread of any kind, several kinds of cheeses were there, lots of cold fish (another no for me), and a couple of dried fruit and cold cereal options as well. I took a picture of a few things (the only food pic I remembered to take). So on this plate is hummus, cottage cheese, a grape leaf wrapped around I have no idea, and an egg, like baked to hard boil and swimming in what I can closest describe as like spaghetti sauce. Actually really good. The apples and pears were like right off the tree…reminds me of when my childhood friend would take me to her grandparent’s apple orchard and we would eat apples straight from the trees. Yum!!
Here is a picture of the hotel in Netanya where we stayed last night, the Ramada. And Evan on our patio overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.
We had a very nice room with what Evan and I both agreed was the best shower head ever. Of course, after sweating and traveling for over 24 hours straight, anything was going to feel good, but man was that a good shower. The room had a king size bed, but split into 2 singles to be kosher. Pastor explained to us that a man cannot share a mattress with his wife when she is ceremonially unclean, so they can sleep together with the same blanket and everything, just not the same mattress. Our bed tonight is the same way.
Here is sunrise outside our balcony. So beautiful. Sorry I don’t know how to change the orientation!
EO Tours has this process DOWN. This is a Whisper, I had never heard of it. It’s an earphone you can wear in one ear and can hear the tour guide no matter where he is, for tour info, where to go, when to move, when to go to the bathroom, when to head for the bus…man is that nice. No shouting, and we can always hear him. So handy!
We got to enjoy fresh squeezed pomegranate juice at one of the tour sites (Mt Precipice, I’ll write another blog). It was sour, and yummy!
I got my first Israeli money in change today when we went out for gelato. 20 shekel bill and 2 shekel coins. Value=~$6.37.
I thought this was a really cool looking tree, so I took a pic of it. Some other vegetation pics too, but this one was really neat I thought. OK, now on to the tourist stuff! Thanks for reading!